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xv, 583 pages ; 21 cm

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I. The rise and early types of theology to the complete system of Origen and to the fully established conception of the pre-mundane personal logos: Apostolic Christianity -- Palestinian and Hellenistic Judaism -- Greek philosophy and Gentile culture -- The Ecclesiastical writers -- Doctrine in the apostolic father -- The Judaic separatist parties -- The Gnostic sects -- Marcion -- The beginnings of theology: the Greek apologists -- The rise of the old Catholic Church -- the rule of faith -- the canon -- the episcopate -- the rise and the exclusion of Montanism -- The Catholic doctrine in the Asia Minor school: Irenaeus, Melito of Sardis -- in the North African school : Tertullian -- The Alexandrian Christian philosophy: Clement -- Monarchianism -- Monarchianism overcome in the east -- the system of Origen -- theology after the death of Origen -- Novatian -- Dionysius of Alexandria and Dionysius of Rome -- Mehodius -- II. The development of Patristic theology in the east and in the west: The controversy with heathenism -- the danger of division -- the seat of authority -- the canon, scripture and tradition -- the grounds of theistic belief -- Doctrines converted into dogmas -- church and state -- the great controversies -- the ecclesiastical writers, east and west -- The development of the doctrine of the Trinity to the Council of Constantinople -- The development of the doctrine of the person of Christ to John of Damascus -- The doctrines not defined in the Ecumenical councils -- The theological system of Augustine -- the Pelagian controversy -- Pelagianism and the theology of the east on the controverted topics -- Semi-Pelagianism

III The development of Roman Catholic theology in the Middle Ages, and its reduction to a systematic form: From Gregory I. To Charlemagne -- The work of medieval theology -- theology in the eastern church -- theology and education in the west -- John Scotus -- From Charlemagne to the beginnings of Scholasticism -- the adoption controversy -- Gottschalk's doctrine of predestination -- Radbert's doctrine of the Lord's Supper -- The penitential system -- The tenth century -- controversy of Berengarius and Lanfranc on the Lord's Supper -- Characteristics of Scholasticism -- The Scholastic maxim -- philosophy: nominalism and realism -- Scholasticism and the universities -- the method of Scholasticism -- Subdivisions of the Scholastic era -- the first section: Anselm; Abelard; Bernard; the school of St. Victor -- the books of sentences -- Peter Lombard -- The second section of the Scholastic era -- St. Francis and the Franciscan piety -- mysticism -- Aquinas and Scotus -- The Scholastic doctrines: natural theology and Christian evidences -- the Trinity and the incarnation -- divine and human agency -- Original sin -- Scholastic doctrines -- the atonement -- conversion and sanctification -- justification -- the church and the papacy -- Scholastic doctrines: the sacraments -- The Catharists -- the Waldensians -- the mystics -- Wesel; Wessel; Savonarola -- the doctrines of Wyclif -- Huss -- The Renaissance and its influence -- Erasmus -- IV. The principal types of Protestant theology -- the age of polemics -- the crystallizing of parties and creeds: The theology of Luther -- The theology of Zwingli -- the Eucharistic controversy -- parties in the Lutheran church to the Form of Concord -- The theology of Calvin -- Rise and progress of Protestant theology in England -- Sects in the wake of the Reformation -- the Socinian system -- The Roman Catholic system restated in the Creed of Trent -- the theology of the Jesuits -- the Arminian revolt against Calvinism -- the School of Saumur -- Pajonism -- the federal theology -- Theology in England in the seventeenth century -- "Rational theology" -- the Latitudinarians -- The Arian controversy in England -- the English deistic school -- the theology of the Quakers -- efforts on the continent for the reunion of churches

V. Theology as affected by modern philosophy and scientific researches -- Philosophy on the continent after Descartes: Spinoza; Leibnitz-Philosophy in England: Francis Bacon; Locke; Hume; Reid -- The writings of Butler and Paley -- character of English theology to the middle of the eighteenth century -- the Wesleyan theology -- Theology in America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- theology of the first settlers -- Jonathan Edwards and his school -- the rise of Unitarianism: Channing; Emerson; Parker -- the rise of Universalism -- New developments in the New England school -- the theology of Horace Bushnell -- the theology of Henry B. Smith -- Calvinism in the Presbyterian church; Charles Hodge -- Theology in England in the Nineteenth century: the evangelical school in the established church -- the philosophy and the theology of Coleridge -- the early Oriel school: Whateley; Arnold- the Oxford Movement: its sources and leader; its principles and aims; the tracts; the Hampden controversy; the conversion of Newman; the doctrine of the Eucharist and other tenets of the Oxford school; the Gorham case; Canon Liddon; CanonGore; J.B. Mozley's theological teaching -- Theology in England in the nineteenth century: the broad churchmen -- the " essays and reviews" -- the broad church in Scotland: Thomas Erskine; McLeod Campbell- Theological opinions of Matthew Arnold -- the Christian agnosticism of Hamilton and Mansel -- positivism -- the revival of Hume's philosophy: J.S. Mill -- the agnosticism of Herbert Spencer -- influence of Darwinism on theology -- agnostic opinions of T. H. Huxley -- The Anglo- French Deism -- Theology of German in the Nineteenth century: Deistic Illuminism in Germany -- Zinzendorf and the Moravians- the theology of Lessing -- the rationalistic biblical and historical criticism: Semler; Eichhorn- "the theology of the understanding" -- the philosophy of Kant -- the Kantian ethical rationalism -- Jacobi and Herder -- two divergent currents of theological thought -- Schleiermacher's theological system -- The liberal evangelica or mediating school: the influence of Schleiermacher; Dorner; Julius Muller; Nietzsche -- the system of Roth -- Lipsius -- the confessional Lutherans -- the Ritschlians -- the pantheistic development of philosophy and theology in Germany: Fichte; Schelling; Hegel -- the Hegelian interpretation of Christianity -- the writings of Strauss -- Biedermann -- the system of Baur -- The later Roman Catholic theology -- Indifferentism in the eighteenth century- the fall of the Jesuit order and its revival -- liberalism of Lamennais and his associates -- papal reign of Pius IX -- the dogma of the immaculate conception -- the Vatican council and the dogma of papal infallibility -- the interpretation of the dogma

Includes bibliographical references and index

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